Birthday

This weekend was my sibling's birthday party.  

The invitees made tie-dye shirts, and I made a clues-to-the-treasure activity.

But somehow our dog, Koa, ended up sunbathing in a puddle of leftover purple dye!

  

She just turned five this month, so I hope this is just a phase!

Books, Books, Books!

(Image from Amazon.com.)

Wow.  I love the library.  A while ago, I reserved a book at the library, having either seen it on a bestseller list or read a summary or both.  A couple of weeks ago, after I'd forgotten all about the hold, the book came in.  I started reading, and was hooked by about chapter three.  Amazing book: great characters, plot, humor., etc.

The book's called Fablehaven, and is (as I was very excited to learn at the end of the library's paperback version) part of a series.  The fifth (and final?) book is coming out THIS MONTH!!

The book is categorized more for younger readers, and though people get confused sometimes when they see me reading a children's book, I'm okay, because there's no denying good literature.  Last I heard, that Harry Potter kid was doing pretty well.

I shan't summarize the plot because it's difficult to explain without somebody saying, "So it's like Spiderwick?" or "Oh, it's a fantasy."  It's easier for me to simply say "READ IT," in an intense, wide-eyed way which makes people start reading "it" just to have an excuse to go to a different room.

However, I will say that in the books, I enjoy the fact that the main characters, Seth and Kendra, aren't orphans, or in love with a vampire (or werewolf), as is really the only stuff on shelves these days*.  I love that Seth and Kendra's grandparents are major characters, the different powers some characters got for their bravery, the beautiful artwork by Brandon Dorman, and it does help to have a nice quote from a certain Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game!) on the back cover.

So, on March 23, I hope to be turning the pages of my own copy of "Keys to the Demon Prison"!  I'd better finish book four soon!

Oh, and apparently Fablehaven is going to be a movie!!





*I did enjoy the Twilight Saga, but enough is enough!  If I see a cover with a title like Forever Blood**, etc., I move on to find some Hogwarts, Camp Half-Blood, or Fablehaven.

**Just made this title up, please don't search for it.

In Regards to the Late Luger

Many know of this young man's passing.  However, I do find it extremely insensitive to show the crash footage, pictures, etc.  I am refusing to see any of it, even when the media insists on displaying the tragic incident everywhere it can.

Mockingjay, More Books, a Movie and Some DVDs!

I'm SO excited for the new book in the Hunger Games trilogy!  Fantastic reads--quick, too, because you get so absorbed into the world of Panem.  I really hope that if Katniss ends up with anybody, it's Peeta!

August seems like years away...

Fortunately, there are several other books to keep me company, including a series I've recently become addicted to: The 39 Clues.  The outline of this series, the first book of it, and the Percy Jackson series (the movie, from Harry Potter 1 & 2 director Chris Columbus, comes out next Friday!) are all under author Rick Riordan's belt.  The Viper's Nest is part of the 39 Clues series, and that very recently came out.  It's by Peter Lerangis, who also wrote another 39 Clues book: The Sword Thief.

The Sword Thief is tied for 1st favorite with book 1 (The Maze of Bones) of the four books I've read so far.

The beauty of this series is that there are different writers (some, like Lerangis, double up--yay!) so the books come out a lot sooner.  The 8th books out April 6th!

March also looks like a promising month: The Diary of a Wimpy Kid Movie Diary, Monk Seaon 8 comes out on DVD...

May is when Rick Riordan's new series, The Kane Chronicles, comes out...

Geez, I'd better get started!

Blupdate!

I've added the start of a new page to my blog called "About Me" and am planning on adding another page solely for my artwork.  Check it out and leave some feedback!